PMO Manager

Package Description

Job Reference: 022012

Band: D

Salary: £47,000 - £60,000 per annum, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: 24 Month Fixed Term Contract / Attachment

Location: Any major BBC hub (UK based)

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.
  
  

Job Introduction

Tim Davie – A BBC For The Future

The BBC “really has a proven record of reshaping itself over a whole century to stay relevant through major industry changes. From the birth of TV to the first steps into the digital world. From Ceefax, BBC Micro (remember those?), digital switchover, DAB, iPlayer. We have helped lead, and shape change – for public good. Now we must transform ourselves again to increase relevance in a time of limitless choice and interactivity.”

We’re looking for a PMO Manager who will play a critical role in supporting the successful delivery of an initiative within the ‘Future BBC’ transformation agenda. The initiative is focused on enabling a BBC that is fit for the future looking at increasing the pace of our delivery, how we can leverage market innovation and better exploit our own innovation, creating the environment for our capability to develop and scale to meet audience demands and increase the efficiency of our processes.

The PMO Manager will work closely with the Project Director and Programme Manager and is a new role in the BBC Transformation Office.

The Transformation Office supports and drives transformation activities to make change happen across the BBC, provides data driven visibility of transformation progress and builds the transformation capability and the change muscle of the organisation.

The Transformation Office is at the heart of delivering major BBC transformation through the Sustainability Programme, the DI&B Programme, Across the UK, the Enterprise Savings Portfolio and BBC Futures.

Working as part of the Transformation Office you will gain greater insight into the strategic transformation journey of the BBC, deliver and ensure accountability for change across the BBC and help to build a strong culture aligned to our values.

Main Responsibilities

The role holder will play a key part in coordination of activity of the initiative, ensuring governance, reporting, stakeholder management and other requirements are considered and implemented. This role is responsible for tracking programme deliverables, managing risks and dependencies across the initiative, and ensuring effective governance and reporting. The PMO Manager will provide structured oversight of progress across the initiative and the constituent projects, helping ensure alignment with BBC strategic priorities while enabling efficient execution. This is a highly collaborative role, requiring strong organisational and stakeholder management skills. The post holder will be expected to work with multiple teams, supporting project and business leads in delivering against milestones and providing regular updates to the all boards within the initiative governance.

Are you the right candidate?

Role

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Experience of managing a portfolio or programme management office (PMO) and managing aspects of complex programmes or projects.
• Experience of working in high profile, complex environments with high levels of programme scrutiny and challenge.
• An understanding of process, people and technical elements of change.
• A good understanding of benefits management from strategy through to realisation.
• A track record of planning, monitoring, reporting and problem solving skills – including proactively working through requirements and supporting senior leaders in meeting and surpassing them.
• Skills in MS Project (or equivalent project software), able to create, resource and complete your own plans and review plans created by others.
• Have proven organisational skills and a good understanding of the risks, issues and complexities inherent to major programmes whilst maintaining critical business as usual functions.
• The ability to meet demanding deadlines, set targets and adapt to changing circumstances across a range of concurrent activities.
• Good portfolio analysis skills and experience of researching, collating and analysing information to support decision making; comfortable presenting insights, challenging and influencing as appropriate to support effective decision making.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) with a proven ability to establish good working relationships with stakeholders and across a wide range of people and disciplines.
• If you think you meet all or most of these criteria, and you feel that working as part of the BBCs Transformation Office is for you, we would love to hear from you.
  
  

About The BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

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